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How To Start A Blog For Your Small Business

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After all, you’re a small business owner, and probably not a trained writer. A blog can also be a low-cost way to elevate your small business’s reach and also build credibility with your followers, making it a win-win situation. Why start a blog for your small business?

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Maintaining traditional channels like phone, email and live chat support are a must—but a solid support community can cut that burden drastically, saving you time and money. But good communities are more than support channels. An effective support community relies on members to generate much of the support. It’s Worked Before.

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5 Things I’ve Learned from Running BizSugar

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When my company, Small Business Trends, LLC, first purchased BizSugar in the summer of 2009, the best way I could describe it was as a miniature version of Digg, except that BizSugar focused soley on sharing information geared toward small and mid-sized businesses. Work on Building a Community. This is still true.

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Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Word

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In the world of technology where Microsoft’s products dominate the market, it’s extremely hard to find suitable software to edit text or write compelling papers you can later use for personal and commercial purposes. Standardization is tricky, so make sure that the platform you’ll use can also be opened in Microsoft Word. Google Docs.

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Should You Design Your Website Using WordPress?

Small Business Mavericks

More and more, I’m seeing small business websites using WordPress as a CMS. Even churches and community service organizations are using WordPress as a CMS and designing their websites using this free open source software. Is that a good idea? In a word, there is nothing wrong with using WordPress as a CMS.

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Piwik: The Google Analytics Alternative

Small Business Mavericks

For the longest time Google Analytics was the only free open source analytics program. Many online marketers opted to use a paid analytics program so they could keep their information private and away from Google’s eyes, or they had other reasons. It’s called Piwik. Features include: Full ownership of your data.

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Why WordPress Rules

Small Business Mavericks

It is open source and therefore easily manipulated for one’s own purposes. There is a strong support community. There are tons of free themes as well as premium themes on the market for WordPress. A huge development community is always at work to make WordPress better.

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